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I can’t be the only person to have winced a little at this color in Joseph Curl’s ultra-sarcastic write-up of a speech by Vice President Joe Biden. Mr. Biden

PART ONE One of the country’s most affluent majority black districts has a foreclosure rate nearing the worst in the country, with the rate of foreclosure fraud spiking along with it.

Almost 29 years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter delivered what is considered one of the worst speeches of his career. Americans were

President-elect Barack Obama’s top appointments shouldn’t be ignored, but here are crucial sub-cabinet jobs critical to the success of his foreign-policy agenda.

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown’s Obama oil spill criticisms are unlikely to rehab his post-Katrina image. Energy interests along the Gulf Coast will

The Washington Post reports this morning that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin frequently billed the state a per diem -- meant to cover travel expenses on official

The Wright-Obama drama this week is more universal than racial, writes law professor and friend-of-the-site David Troutt. From Roman mythology to the Old

A poll released by Elon University on Friday shows a majority of North Carolinians oppose a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The

In the course of a piece I’m proud of about David Kilcullen’s forthcoming strategy-level counterinsurgency handbook, I included a profanity-laden quote from him

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... but that won’t stop me from sharing my Washington voting experience, and a few photos, with you. I cast my ballot this morning in the Petworth

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A crop of Tea Party candidates have been shaking up primaries and special election contests this cycle. But how have they actually fared in the contests that

The Obama administration is considering stripping the Securities and Exchange Commission of some its oversight powers, and shifting that responsibility to the

The White House just announced the leadership of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board: former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), a big Obama supporter, and

NASHVILLE -- The closest thing to a controversy at the National Tea Party Convention has been the opening speech by former congressman Tom Tancredo, in which he

Eight years after it was passed, the USA Patriot Act remains among the most controversial pieces of counterterrorism legislation in the so-called “war on terror.”

A recent Salon article exploring the “surprisingly warm” relationship between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the Muslim community leans on the Republican

Georgia’s immigration-enforcement law H.B. 87, effective today, is being met with protests in Atlanta, while protests against new immigrant detention centers will take place in Miami and other U.S. cities

President George W. Bush, the Treasury Dept., the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. are all out in force today, as they should be. You own

With the expected announcement of the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois, a Republican-driven hysteria is virtually